IRELAND
The Irish News
Marie Louise McConville
13 April, 2017
THE future of crisis-hit Maynooth and its suitability as a national training base for seminarians is “an important question”, Bishop Donal McKeown has said.
The Bishop of Derry was responding to questions about the recent crisis at the Co Kildare seminary amid claims of inappropriate behaviour among some of the trainee priests.
Last August it was reported that some students had been using the gay dating app Grindr.
Questions were raised about the seminary’s suitability by Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin who has since opted to send his student priests to the Irish College in Rome.
The Archbishop however played down any link between his decision and the allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the seminary saying he had made the decision before the crisis arose.
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